Course Offerings

HSA-405Health Care Systems: Issues and Trends
(3 credits)

Overview of the health care system. Reviews the history and current status of various segments of health care. Includes an analysis of the impact of socioeconomic, political, and current health care issues and trends.

HSA-406Jurisprudence and Ethics in Health Care
(3 credits)

Emphasizes the legal and ethical processes and their application to the health care organization, administrator, staff, employees, and patients. Includes ethical dimensions of the decision-making process and current ethical issues in health care.

HSA-414Health Care Management Theory and Human Resources
(3 credits)

Management theory and practice as applied by managers of health services. Emphasizes analysis of the manager's roles, interactions with people, the organization, and the environment. Special emphasis on human resource issues.

HSA-420Health Care Planning and Marketing
(3 credits)

Integrates long-range goal planning with dimensions of marketing for health care services. Concepts, techniques, and theories used in the planning and management of marketing in the health care industry.

HSA-467Statistics Appraisal/Evaluation
(3 credits)

Focuses on the analysis of data common to health care. Includes data description, elements of probability, distribution of random variables, estimation and confidence intervals, binomial and normal distributions, hypothesis testing, contingency tables, regression analysis, and ANOVA.

HSA-490Decision Making in Health Care
(3 credits)

Examines decision making in health services administration by extensive use of case studies. Integrates material from other HSA courses into the study of decisions facing all types of health care organizations.

HSA-495Independent Study
(1-3 credits)

Independent research in health care management conducted under faculty supervision. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.

HSA-498Internship in Health Services Administration
(1-6 credits)

A structured assignment which allows student to gain practical experience in a health care management position relating to an area of career interest. Student is directed by the internship director and supervised by a member of the cooperating organization. Prerequisite: Permission of health services administration program director.

HSA-499Special Topics in Health Services Administration
(1-3 credits)

Lectures and discussion of topics not covered in regular course offerings. Provides greater depth to topics of special interest or explores rapidly changing areas in health services administration.

HSA-505Health Care Systems: Issues and Trends
(3 credits)

Overview of the health care system. Reviews the history and current status of various segments of health care. Includes analysis of the impact of socioeconomic and political factors, as well as current health care issues and trends.

HSA-506Jurisprudence and Ethics in Health Care
(3 credits)

Emphasizes legal and ethical processes and their application to the health care organization, administrator, staff, employees, and patients. Includes ethical dimensions of the decision-making process and current ethical issues in health care.

HSA-507Health Care Research and Design
(3 credits)

Examines research principles and methods as they contribute to health care organizations and the delivery system. Provides experience in developing a research proposal and formal critique of research literature.

Includes the study of management theory and practice as applied by managers of health services. Emphasizes analysis of the manager's role, interactions with people, the organization, and the environment. Special emphasis on human resource issues.

HSA-516Health Care Information Systems
(3 credits)

Provides an understanding of the concepts and applications of information systems used in the management of health care systems.

HSA-520Health Care Planning and Marketing
(3 credits)

Integrates long-range goal planning with dimensions of marketing for health care services. Concepts, techniques, and theories used in the planning and management of marketing in the health care industry.

HSA-524Health Problems in Health Care
(3 credits)

A study of health promotion, specific diseases, and health problems throughout the life cycle. Includes communicable and chronic diseases and conditions that affect the individual, the family, and the community. Explores role of health care system in dealing with these problems through prevention and treatment.

HSA-528Financial Management of Health Care Organizations
(3 credits)

Focuses on the acquisition, allocation, and management control of financial resources within health care organizations. Includes cost analysis, financial position analysis and strategies, reimbursement, pricing policies, budgeting, capital expenditure, analysis of financial reports, and informal and external controls.

HSA-529Health Services Field Experience
(1-6 credits)

Provides field experience within a selected health care organization with the supervision of an agency preceptor and faculty member. Design of course dependent upon the individual student's past and present work experiences in health care organizations as well as future goals. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.

HSA-532Managed Health Care
(3 credits)

Examines the changing role of managed care organizations in the health care system. Discusses the history, basic structure of managed care firms, the interrelationships among providers, and their evolving role. Their impact on health care economics discussed in detail.

HSA-567Statistics for Appraisal and Evaluation
(3 credits)

Focuses on the analysis of data common to health care. Includes data description, elements of probability, distribution of random variables, estimation and confidence intervals, binomial and normal distributions, hypothesis testing, contingency tables, regression analysis, and ANOVA.

HSA-590Decision Making in Health Care
(3 credits)

Examines decision making in health services administration by extensive use of case studies. Material from other HSA courses integrated into the study of decisions facing all types of health care organizations.

HSA-595Independent Study
(1-3 credits)

Independent research in health care management conducted under faculty supervision. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.

HSA-598Internship in Health Care Management
(1-6 credits)

Structured assignment which allows student to gain practical experience in a health care management position related to an area of career interest. Student is directed by the internship director and supervised by a member of the cooperating organization. Prerequisite: Permission of the health services administration program director.

HSA-599Special Topics in Health Services Administration
(1-3 credits)

Lectures and discussion of topics not covered in regular course offerings. Provides greater depth to topics of special interest or explores rapidly changing areas in health services administration.